I had no idea...

I really didn't realize that there was such a "blog world" out there until tonight.  I've been reading a few blogs that I've come across in recent months and tonight I discovered this entire blog devoted to bashing a fairly well known blogger in the "mommy blogging" world.  Wow.  I don't really have an opinion one way or the other about the blogger in question but I just find it odd that people get so wrapped up in strangers lives that they will make entire blogs to defame them.

I have been reading these other blogs for some ideas about various things I'd like to try in my parenting and lifestyle and while I am an optimist about people I certainly know that it is easy to portray what you want people to belive you are when you they are learning about you through your own written words.  Keeping that in mind, I have found this blog mostly enjoyable with some helpful hints on various things that I've wondered about (being new to this whole mommy thing).

As I was thinking about how sad it is that people get so up in arms over perfect strangers I realized that I had just wasted HOURS (literally) reading this stuff and trying to figure out how I felt about it.  Totally lame, I know.  It's not that I think it's lame to find a community online but I do think it's lame to waste an entire evening reading, for lack of a better term, gossip.  I could hardly believe how long I had been sitting at my computer until I looked at the clock and realized that it was like 3 or 4 hours later and I was still reading.  Geeze!!

I feel...I'm not sure what word I'm looking for here.  It's like, part of me really wants to keep reading because I have this insatiable curiosity in life to know people's business and know what the REAL truth is, and another part of me is screaming at me to stop because it is a complete waste of my time and my own, very real, life is waiting for me to start living it again.  I am glad to have found this blog (whether the blogger is completely delusional or not) because I feel like there is some genuinely useful information on it, but it's not the end of my world if she is not all she claims to be.  Although, to be completely honest, I am a little disheartened at the accusations because she seems, at first glance anyway, like a genuine person and someone I could enjoy knowing if I were to ever know her...meet her...you get the point.

I suppose the point of this post is, I really didn't even know that this was a thing and clearly something that consumes a lot of people's lives.  It's a big, bad, blogging, world out there, and I am not even sure I want to be a part of it anymore.  I suppose there is a price to pay for putting your life online for the masses to read.  Maybe that's why I've kept my Facebook profile so very private all this time (and I think I'll continue to do so).